Bottle.



N6. 768,526; PATENTE-D AUG. 23, 1904.

' 'D'- M; HALL.

BUTTIAE. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 5', 1903. 11015013111...

Patented August 23,1904.

PATENT Grafica.

DUPREE M. HALL, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

`B0TTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNO. 768,526, dated August 23, 1904. Application filed December 5, 1903. Serial No. 183,933. I (No model.)

To all whom. t may concern.-

Zen of the United States, residing at Memphis,

lin the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottles, 4of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottles, and has for its primary object the production of a new and useful device of this character which is adapted to be sealed by a cap designed to be broken, resulting in the disguring of the bottle, before access can be gained to its contents. The disfiguring will be such that if the bottle is refilled it will be apparent to a casual purchaser that the bottles contents are counterfeit.

A further object of the invention is to pro- 'vide a bottle of the above-stated character which will be easy and cheap to manufacture, durable, and eflicient.

The invention consists of the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred form of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view of a bottle constructed in accordance with my invention. the cap being removed from the bottle. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the cap in applied position.

Referring to the drawings by referencenumerals, 1 designates a bottle, and 2 its neck, the latter being provided with a port or passage 3, by means of which the bottle may be filled or emptied and in which is adapted to i. be inserted a stopper 4. The neck has its upper portion reduced to provide an annular upstanding flange 5', which is adapted to receive a cap 6 to be secured thereto to necessitate the `destruction of its topvor portion 7, which extendslover the passage 3, before access can be gained thereto to extract the stopper 4. The flange is' provided at its b ase with annular shoulders 8, arranged onboth sides thereof, and Iits upper end is provided with an annular groove.9, adapted to receive an adherent to firmly secure the cap to the flange.

The cap is preferably circular in cross-section and is provided with a vertical annular groove l0, adapted to receive the flange, as I disclosed in lFig. 2 of the'drawings. The upper wall l1 of the groove is convexed, said convex portion being adapted to be received by the groove 9 in order that the adherent carried by said groove 9 may secure the cap to the flange at this point.

In applying the cap to the iiange the surplus adherent carried bythe groove is displaced by the convex wall 11 and caused to' flow downward between the vertical walls of the groove lO and flange, whereby the space therebetween is filled with adherent. The displacement of the adherent is limited by the engagement of the shoulders 8 by the lower edge of the cap, which limits the downward movement of the convex wall 11 in the groove 9, thereby permitting said groove to retain sufiicient adherent to secure the cap to the'flange at that point.

The top 7 of the cap is made thinner than the remaining portion to permit it to be freely crushed to gain access to the stopper 4, after the extraction of which the contents of the bottle may be withdrawn. 4

The flange is strong enough to prevent its vbeing broken oif'at the point where it joins the neck, whereby all liability of the flange being broken off and filed down to give to the bottle the ordinaryappearance is obviated.

It is apparent when the top portion 7 of the cap is broken that the stopper may be freely extracted and that the cap in this broken condition will be a warning to purchasers that its contents are counterfeit. It is also apparent that the small particles of glass resulting from the crushing ofthe top 7 are prevented from entering the bottleby the stopper 4.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A bottle having its neck provided with IOO adherent, and a cap provided with a groove adapted to receive the iange, Said cap being adapted to be secured to the flange hy said adherent.

3. A bottle having` its neck provided With a fiange having a groove adapted to carry an adherent, and a cap provided with a groove adapted to receive the flange, said groove having its upper Wall eonvexed to be received by the groove of the flange.

4. A bottle having its neck provided With a fiange having a groove adapted to carry an adherent, shoulders on bothv sides of the fiangebase, and a cap provided with a groove adapted to receive the flange, said groove having its upper Wall convexed, the lower edges DUPREE M. HALL.

Witnesses:

D, M. HENNING, O. S. MoCowN. 

